Mass Murder In Norway

Very strange happenings this week. A reader and commenter at the respected blog Gates of Vienna committed mass murder in Norway.  Gates of Vienna reports:

The mass murderer at Utøya is now said to have been a Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik. He is reported to have posted frequent comments at various anti-jihad websites up until sometime last year. The Scandinavians tell me that these comments showed mainstream counterjihad sentiments, with no incitements to violence or evidence of homicidal insanity.

Indeed, the shooter had revealed himself in public comments that he was pro-Israel, anti-Nazi, anti-racist and anti-Jihad.  He publicly disparaged "ideologies of hate" like Communism, Nazism and Islam.

In spite of his reasonable public statements, Breivik then dressed himself in a policeman's uniform and began to execute civilians at a summer camp in Norway, many of them children.  These people were not Muslims, as one might surmise.  They were children of the Center-Left labor party of Norway.

What on earth did Breivik hope to accomplish?  Around 100 people are dead, making this one of the worst mass murder episodes in recent history.  There is no rational explanation for these deeds.  They were acts of a deranged mind.

Crazy people come from all walks of life, apparently.  They can explode without warning and begin killing people.  There is almost nothing we can do to stop them, except possibly passing right-to-carry laws.  When the only one with a gun is mentally deranged, those without guns find themselves at a distinct disadvantage.  Like the dead in Norway.

Almost as bad will be the leftist/liberal hateful propaganda that will be born of this.  Pamela Geller had a worthy quote on this.  She said:

But this is war. And the left is vicious, amoral and depraved. They mean to win, and that is the only way they know how. 

Hat tip:  Gates of Vienna

An Open Letter to Pamela Geller

From Gates of Vienna:

An Open Letter to Pamela Geller (Updated)

I’ve bumped this post to the top and will keep it there for a while because so many additional signatories, including several Americans, have asked that their names be added to the list. Scroll to the bottom to see who’s there — some may surprise you.



As most readers already know, earlier today Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs posted a prominent repudiation of the English Defence League, including references to their alleged infiltration by “neo-fascists”.

A group of Counterjihad bloggers and writers has joined together to publish this open letter to Ms. Geller. Most of us are Europeans, but not all — we also have signatories from the United States, Canada, and Australia.

If you are a blogger or a writer and want to add your signature to this letter, please send your name and URL to me (unspiek [at] chromatism [dot] net), or to the proprietors of other sites where it has been posted.



Dear Ms. Geller,

We the undersigned are writing to register our astonishment and dismay at your public denunciation of the English Defence League, and in particular your reference to the “neo-fascists that had infiltrated the administration of the group”.

This is a grossly inaccurate and unfair slander against the leaders and membership of the EDL, who have never wavered in their refusal to include neo-Nazis, fascists, or adherents of any other ideology that seeks to divide people based on their ethnicity. The core mission of the EDL has always been, and remains, to stop the encroachment of sharia and Islamic fascism.

For the past two years the English Defence League has been on the front lines of the resistance to sharia and militant Islam in England. Its leaders have put their own lives in danger by doing so. They live under constant threat, not just from murderous Muslim zealots, but from their own government, which has harassed and arrested them repeatedly. Tommy Robinson, the leader of the EDL, has been arrested multiple times, and is currently facing trumped-up charges designed to put him and the EDL out of action.

To paraphrase Geert Wilders: “I was dragged to court by leftist and Islamic organizations that were bent not only on silencing me but on stifling public debate.” The EDL is being dragged into a kangaroo court of uninformed public opinion. The more people’s fears can be raised, the more quickly debate can be smothered.

In the final analysis, as Geert Wilders points out, the strength of our community depends on the freedom we feel to “enter our convictions in the open lists to win or lose”.

All communities inevitably experience conflicts based on differences of opinion. It is crucial that we approach one another’s efforts in good faith, presume the other’s efforts to be well-meaning until conclusively proven otherwise, support initiatives made by others that further our common cause, and refuse to be dragged into parsing ever more finely our differences.

Our ideal of the “perfect” can kill any merely “good enough” effort.

Your unfortunate statements were picked up and repeated by other websites and blogs, some of them quite prominent and well-respected. This has done harm to our common cause, and has driven a completely needless wedge between the American and European wings of the international Counterjihad.

To help heal the damage that has been done, we insist that you apologize in a public forum to the English Defence League.

Its leaders and members are heroes, and their organization is widely considered a beacon of hope in Europe. All Europeans who resist the Islamization of their countries look to the EDL for inspiration, and all of them stand in solidarity with it in its struggle.

We strongly request that you reconsider your deplorable words and withdraw them.

Sincerely yours,

• 1389, 1389 Blog (USA)
• Aeneas, ICLA, Beer n Sandwiches (England)
• Coldwarrior, The Blogmocracy (USA)
• Costin, În Linie Dreaptă (Romania)
• Eeyore, Vlad Tepes (Canada)
• El Inglés (England)
• Fjordman (Norway)
• Gaia, ICLA (England)
• Gastou, galaxy SITA (France)
• Green Infidel (Poland)
• The Head Infidel, Infidels United and I Will Not Submit(USA)
• Frank Hilliard, Mesopotamia West (Canada)
• David Holmes, The Anger of a Quiet Man (England)
• Danny Jeffrey, Freedom Rings 1776 (USA)
• Hans Erling Jensen, Eticha (Denmark)
  At Hans’ request, I add: And he is not angry about the letter! 1 July 18:45 (CET)
• Keith,Crusader Rabbit (Australia)
• KGS, Tundra Tabloids (Finland)
• Rick Lakehomer, Patriot’s Corner (USA)
• Nilk, Right Wing Death Bogan (Australia)
• Nanette Rayman-Rivera (USA)
• Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (Austria)
• Takuan Seiyo, son of victims of the Third Reich, writer (USA, Japan)
• Seneca III (England)
• Skjoldungen, Hodjas Blog (Denmark)
• Stogie, Saber Point (USA)
• Diana West (USA)
• Paul Weston (England)
• Wolfshead, Crucible of Terror (England)
• Zenster (USA)
• Zimriel,The House of David (USA)
• Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna (USA

Signer list is updated as of July 3rd, 2011

Anti-Jihad, Pro-US French Blog Suspended

The Gates of Vienna reports that one of my favorite French blogs, Le Blog Drzz, has been suspended due to an "illegal" comment by one of its readers. Drzz is a popular French blog that is anti-jihad, pro-USA and conservative. I still have them linked in my "Favorite French Blogs" section in the left sidebar. Except now when you click the link you get a message saying the blog does not exist.

The French blog host is called Over-blog. Apparently, Over-blog sent an email to Le Blog Drzz demanding that they remove the offending comment; however, they blocked access to the site so that the Drzz owners could not remove it. Since they didn't remove it, they were then suspended.

I have often quoted Miguel Garroté, a talented writer and reporter, from Le Blog Drzz. I will certainly miss his posts. Le Blog Drzz posted pictures of Ronald Reagan and quoted Thomas Jefferson, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Only they quoted it in French.

The purging and censorship of blogs for ridiculous reasons continues apace.

MEANWHILE, you can complain to Over-blog about this injustice. Send them an email in English and tell them to restore Le Blog Drzz TOUT DE SUITE. That's pronounced "Toot Sweet" and it means pronto, pardner. Write to them at abuse@over-blog.com.

A Strategy for Western Survivalists (a new Fjordman essay)

Fjordman argues at the Gates of Vienna that the European Union has been flawed from the start and that fixing it is impossible. The strategy of Western survivalists should therefore wait for the opportune time to reclaim Western civilization from the neo-Marxists who now control it.

He writes:

I have mentioned several times the possibility that we never won the Cold War as decisively as we should have done. The enemy has been regrouping and now largely controls our media and educational institutions less than a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We did not have public trials against the supporters of Marxism just as we did against Nazism. That was a serious mistake, and it is of paramount importance that we do not repeat it. If or when the European Union collapses and Multiculturalism is defeated across the Western world, we need to stage public trials against the creators of Eurabia and the lies continuously told by our media and academia. They need to be exposed as evil and politically crushed.

I agree with Fjordman that holding traitors accountable is a delicious goal. But when do we reclaim Western civilization and how do we do it? He writes:

[Milton] Friedman believes that during a crisis, we only have a brief window of opportunity before society slips back into the “tyranny of the status quo,” and that we need to use this opportunity or lose it.

This is actually very good advice, and it’s in my view the strategy Western survivalists should now follow. When I first started blogging I was concerned with how we could “fix the system.” I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that the system cannot be fixed, and perhaps shouldn’t be fixed. Not only does it have too many enemies, it also has too many internal contradictions. If we define the “system” as mass immigration from alien cultures, globalism, Multiculturalism and suppression of free speech in the name of “tolerance,” then this is going to collapse. It’s inevitable.

The goal of Western survivalists — and that’s what we are — should not be to “fix the system,” but to be mentally and physically prepared for its collapse, and to develop coherent answers to what went wrong and prepare to implement the necessary remedies when the time comes. We need to seize the window of opportunity, and in order to do so, we need to define clearly what we want to achieve.

Read it all.

Fjordman is writing about Europe. We Americans too should be thinking about the coming socialization and ruin of the United States under Barack Obama and the increasingly Marxist nature of the Democratic party, our new rulers. When the Supreme Court no longer upholds the Constitution but actively undermines it, when political leaders undermine our own military in the field, you have to wonder whether the system works the way it was intended. And when these same politicians seek to centralize power, regiment society and usurp the private sector under the guise of environmentalism, the question becomes ever more pressing.

At what point does non-violent resistance begin? When should individual states like Alaska insist on the exploitation of their own resources, like ANWR, without the interference of the federal government? Or build new refineries and nuclear power plants? Or refuse to socialize their doctors and hospitals? Or refuse to adopt crippling emissions standards and caps on energy consumption, like those dictated by the Warner-Lierberman bill? Or insist on closing their borders to illegal immigration when the federal government refuses to act?

I think the time has come.

Can the West be Saved? A Speech by Serge Trifkovic

The Gates of Vienna has published a speech by Serge Trikovic on the nature and the answer to the Islamic threat on western civilization. It is one of the most powerful and accurate descriptions of the problem that I have ever read. It is a must read -- go here now to read the whole speech.

The first book I ever read on Islam was Trifkovic's "The Sword of the Prophet." It really opened my eyes to the history and beliefs of Islam and its violent, totalitarian legacy.

Trifkovic spoke at the latest of a series of Counterjihad meetings, “Defending Civil Liberties in Europe,” which convened over the weekend in Vienna, Austria, and has just concluded. He made an advance copy of his speech to Gates of Vienna. Trifkovic takes the neoliberal elite to task and writes:

Topping the list is elite hostility to all forms of solidarity of the
majority population based on shared historical memories, ancestors, and common
culture; the consequences are predictable:

1. the loss of a sense of place and history among Europeans and North
Americans;
2. rapid demographic decline, especially in Europe, unparalleled in
history;
3. rampant Third World (and in Europe, overwhelmingly Muslim)
immigration;
4. collapse of private and public manners, morals, and traditional
commonalities; imposition of “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” “sensitivity”;
and
5. demonization and criminalization of any opposition to any of the
above.

The end-result is the Westerners’ loss of the sense of propriety over their
lands. Before 1914, both the West and the Muslim world could define themselves
against each other in a cultural sense. The neoliberal elite insists on casting
aside any idea of a specifically “Western” geographic and cultural space that
should be protected from those who do not belong to it and have no rightful
claim to it. The elite insists that our countries belong to the whole
world.

I repeat: this is a must read. I am moving Gates of Vienna to my "Must Reads" list and demoting Little Green Footballs to the blog roll.
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Our Future Conquest by Islam

Little Green Footballs blog is bashing Gates of Vienna blog again. Yesterday, Gates of Vienna had a guest author who discussed the Muslim problem in Europe and possible solutions. That writer came uncomfortably close to implying that genocide might be a last-ditch solution. He wasn't advocating it, just saying that a desperate Europe might be pushed to resort to it unless things change. It was a stupid article and should not have been posted. Gates of Vienna should have foreseen the negative reaction it deservedly provoked.

Nevertheless, the growing Muslim presence in Europe is a serious threat to freedom and pluralistic democracy there. Unless something is done, Europe will be comprised of Islamic nations in 50 years. The Muslims know this. They are patient and keep on immigrating and producing babies. Europe, led by liberals, leftists and socialists, are busily committing national suicide. They have swung wide open the national gates to the barbarian hordes, all the while passing laws making it illegal to criticize Islam or warn of its dangers. Liberals are politically insane. That knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.

We do indeed need to write essays on the Muslim presence in Europe and we need to propose workable ways of dealing with it (excluding genocide of course). There are those, and LGF is rife with them, who are more interested in showing their liberal bonafides than they are in solving the problem. Other LGFers in their comments are slavish Charles Johnson ass-kissing sycophants. I often get a strong feeling that, by disagreeing with the group, I could be summarily blocked at any time. It is an oppressive feeling. I generally do agree with Charles Johnson, but not always. He is more liberal than I am, e.g. coming down on the side of the evolutionists in the Ben Stein dispute.

Many of the LGF members are operating under the false premise that Islam is just another religion and the terrorists have co-opted it. That's utterly naive. Islam is a religion/political/social system. Its core beliefs include violent conquest of the non-Muslim world and the imposition of totalitarian rule. History confirms this, with millions of non-Muslims dead or enslaved as a result.

Another core belief is the replacement of all secular systems of government with Sharia law. That's the Islamic code that requies amputation of limbs of thieves and stoning of adulterers and adulteresses.

One of the first steps the West must take to save itself from an Islamic future is to cease all further Muslim immigration into the West. That's an undebatable given. the Gates of Vienna writer was taken to task at LGF for saying that Muslims already in the West should be encouraged to leave. I agree, however, with the GOV writer. We can pay them to leave, or provide free travel to the Islamic nation of their choice. A large Muslim population is, and will continue to be, a base of logistical and moral support to home-grown terrorists and violent Jihadis. We don't need that in our midst.

Another thing we can and should do is to deny Islam recognition as a religion in the United States, thus making all of its operations taxable and subject to IRS audit. It is not a religion in the usual sense of the word, but a society of sedition that seeks to destroy our Constitution and Bill of Rights. It does not deserve a tax exempt status.

I'm off on a road trip and will be back Sunday. Have a great weekend.